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Magnet wire · Thin-record entry
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Founded: not established. No founding date, founder, incorporator or first directory listing for this company was found, after targeted searching on the exact name in its Fort Wayne / Allen County, its magnet-wire, and its Indiana-company forms. No year is printed. The owed routes are the Fort Wayne / New Haven city directories and Indiana incorporation records at ACPL — a directory run, not a web search, is what will settle whether this firm can be dated at all.
Founders: unknown — not established. None named in any source found, and none invented here.
What it did: magnet wire — insulated copper wire for coils — as one of Fort Wayne’s magnet-wire producers. Its existence as a producer by 1960 is documented, weak chain: the 1960 magnet-wire-centre account, repeated across reference summaries of Fort Wayne, lists the city in 1960 as home to New Haven Wire and Cable Company, Phelps Dodge, Rea Magnet Wire, Superior Essex and a General Electric operation, together producing nearly 90 percent of North America’s magnet wire. The underlying 1960 source was not in hand, so the 90-percent figure is carried as that account’s claim, not as an established fact for this firm. Hawfield’s News-Sentinel magnet-wire account (13 Dec 1993) independently names it — “the smaller New Haven Wire and Cable Co.” — alongside Rea, Phelps Dodge (formerly Inca), Essex and GE.
Course / fate: no course or fate found — not established. No plant address, employment figure, sale, renaming or closure was found. Two cautions: (1) the name suggests New Haven, Indiana, the town east of Fort Wayne, but no source in hand places this company’s plant in New Haven rather than Fort Wayne, and no location is asserted; (2) it is not the Connecticut New Haven Wire Company (organised 1871 in New Haven, Connecticut; later National Wire / American Steel & Wire) — any account merging the two is misidentified on the evidence in hand, which gives the Connecticut firm a complete, separate history with no Indiana connection.
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Sources: News-Sentinel, Hawfield, 13 Dec 1993 — http://egen.fortwayne.com/ns/projects/history/haw16.php ; Fort Wayne summary carrying the 1960 magnet-wire-centre account — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Wayne,_Indiana ; Connecticut Mills, American Steel & Wire Co. history (the separate Connecticut firm, cited only to prevent conflation) — https://connecticutmills.org/find/details/american-steel-and-wire-co ; searched, no founding record found: exact-name searches for “New Haven Wire and Cable” + Fort Wayne / magnet wire (research pass, 2026-11-05). Sources as cited in the profile.